FS#15385 - Firefox upgrade through pacman crashing the system

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by unnikrishnan (webofunni) - Sunday, 05 July 2009, 16:29 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 05 July 2009, 18:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Backend/Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info: Recently I upgraded my Firefox using pacman and after that My Arch system is not booting http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75378


Steps to Reproduce:

I have just upgraded the firefox using pacman -Sy firefox
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Sunday, 05 July 2009, 18:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 05 July 2009, 16:59 GMT
that happens when you upgrade only some packages. you should always use pacman -Syu
Comment by unnikrishnan (webofunni) - Sunday, 05 July 2009, 18:07 GMT
But I believe this as a bug. Just a browser upgrade destroyed my system. There was no warning/error etc displayed when I updated the firefox. Also this is not good, because I need to download more than 500MB of data to just upgrade my browser ?
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 05 July 2009, 18:31 GMT
Welcome to a rolling release distro. We just did huge rebuilds for readline and libjpeg- we don't guarantee that things work without doing a full system upgrade.

And destroyed your system? I highly doubt this caused irreparable damage.

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